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J. P. ASTON.

REVERSIBLE HINGE. No. 317,701. Patented May-12, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FRANKLIN ASTON, OF WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOE TO HIMSELF AND FRANKLIN K. ASTON, OF SAME PLACE.

REVERSIBLE HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,701, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed March 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosnPH F. ASTON, of

Watsonville, in the county of Santa Cruz and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Reversible Hinge, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my new and improved hinge. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan views showing the reversible leaf in different positions, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the slotted barrel removed from the hinge.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

Beferrin g to the drawings, A represents the main leaf of the hinge, formed with the butt a and pintle or pin 12, that rises from the center of the butta. Upon the pintle or pin b is placed the barrel B, which has a dovetailed slot, 0, formed in it that reaches nearly to the lower end of the barrel for receiving and holding the reversible leaf 0 of the hinge, which leaf is formed at each edge with a flange, d, to

fit the slot 0 of the barrel B, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. The flanges d are made Wedgeshaped and of the same length as the slot 0 in the barrel B, and when the leaf G is in place the lower end of the flange d rests upon the step e of the barrel, and the flanges (I stand out from the plane of the main portion of the leaf 0 in opposite directions, so that by simply reversing the leaf 0 the hinge may be used as a right or left hand hinge, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new and improved article of manufacture,thehinge herein shown and described,con-

sisting of the leaf A, formed with the butt a.

having pin or pintle b, the slotted barrel B, and reversible leaf O, the barrel being formed with short dovetailed slot a, forming step e, the leaf 0 being formed with the opposite flanges d to fit in the slot 0, substantially as described.

JOSEPH FRANKLIN ASTON. Witnesses:

-W. V. GAFFEY,

VoLNEY HOWARD. 

